TWENTIETH-CENTURY AMERICAN POPULAR MUSIC HAS SPENT DECADES SHAPING THE COLLECTIVE IMAGINATION OF ITS PROTAGONISTS. BLUES, JAZZ, AND GOSPEL OPENED THE DOOR FOR THE EXPRESSIVENESS OF SOUL, WHICH IN TURN GAVE FUNK PERMISSION TO EXIST. FOLK MUSIC CHAMPIONED REBELLION THROUGHOUT THE SIXTIES, AND BOB DYLAN SANG TO WOODY GUTHRIE IN A NEW YORK HOSPITAL WHILE LEARNING FROM HIS HERO. ALL THIS MUSICAL TRADITION HAS BEEN A CONSTANT PRESENCE IN THE AMERICAN SONGBOOK, AND ITS LEGACY REMAINS ALIVE TODAY. A LINEAGE OF MUSICIANS DEEPLY SHAPED BY THAT TRADITION HAS PRESERVED THE COMMITMENT TO DRIVING A CLEAR EVOLUTION IN MUSICAL STRUCTURES, NEVER CEASING TO STUDY, RESEARCH, AND PLAY THIS MUSIC. PRIMARILY A VIOLINIST, FLAT KAPLIN IS ONE OF THOSE MUSICIANS WHO, TOGETHER WITH GUITARIST STEVE HOWELL (THE MIGHTY MEN), CONTINUES TO STAND AT THE FOREFRONT OF UNTAINTED FOLK-BLUES. KNOW YOU FROM OLD IS A MUSICAL TREASURE THAT KEEPS THE FLAME OF THE MOST RIGOROUS MUSICAL HERITAGE BURNING—ONE TO WHICH WE ALL OWE SO MUCH. THESE ARE TIMELESS SONGS THAT DON'T EVOKE THE PAST, THEY STAND AT THE FOREFRONT OF NONCONFORMITY IN THE FACE OF ANY TEMPTATION TOWARDS OSTRACISM.. HERE YOU WON'T FIND REDEMPTION, ONLY AUTHENTIC POPULAR CULTURE.